Sing Me to Sleep

By: Chris Simms

Narrated by: Becky Hindley

Laura and Owen buy a secluded cottage on the edge of the Peak District. Old mines riddle the hills surrounding their new home and soon after moving in, Laura starts to hear faint snatches of birdsong. Her husband, wrapped up in his new job, is rarely around.

Nervous and alone, Laura fears she's developing tinnitus. Her doctor can find nothing wrong. Then an archaeological dig on a neighbouring hill unearths some disturbing finds...and Laura's life starts to become terrifying.

©2015 Chris Simms (P)2016 W F Howes Ltd

Critic reviews

"Chris Simms has never shown any reluctance to chill the blood of the reader." ( Good Book Guide)

"After many years of reviewing...it’s not often my jaded nerves get actually, physically jangled." ( Morning Star)

Wish it was scarrier sooner.

Is there anything you would change about this book?

The story was a little slow to build up. But when it FINALLY did it was actually pretty creepy and sad.

Would you recommend Sing Me to Sleep to your friends? Why or why not?

I am a very impatient reader so this story was a little slow for me.

Did the narration match the pace of the story?

The narration was right on pace with this one.

Did Sing Me to Sleep inspire you to do anything?

No

The quintessential ghost story

If you want a genuinely unnerving, macabre and atmospheric ghost story, this is it. It follows a familiar formula, but that’s not a bad thing here - I’m rather sick of gimmicky plot twists, personally, and this book avoids them while still making excellent use of an unreliable narrator and a few other deftly tweaked tropes.
I’m giving it four stars rather than five only because a possible medical explanation for the protagonist’s experiences is presented with, IMO, really disproportionate dread for a condition that is very common and rarely debilitating (and which I happen to have).

I can hear the singing!

Kept me on the edge of my seat waiting to know what would happen. I enjoyed the book very much.